5-10 Feb 2004. MacMillans Manon is another in a series of attempts to extort from the 19th century the ballets it somehow failed to produce. The series began with Crankos adaptation of the Tchaikovsky opera Eugene Onegi...
American Academy in Rome. 5 Feb 2004: Presentation of the new edition of Georgina Massons Companion Guide to Rome, revised by John Fort, who will read from the old and new editions (18.30). 11-12 2004 Feb: conference on...
Accademia Filarmonica Romana. Music by Brahms (21.00).
For those who like to plan ahead: the Camerata Ireland with pianist Barry Douglas is at IUC on 7 Feb 2004; pianist Bruno Canino plays with the Orchestra Sinfonica G...
3-15 Feb 2004. Choreography by David Parsons. These shows mark the beginning of a long tour of Italy, where Parsons is very popular. He presents a medley of his work, including the much-loved Caught, in which a male danc...
A national strike by urban public transport workers has been re-scheduled from 26 to 30 Jan. In Rome the buses, trams and metro will be affected from 08.30-17.00 and from 20.00-24.00, but services are expected to be avai...
A new year and a halfway house; just over two-and-a-half years have passed since Silvio Berlusconi became prime minister and if all goes according to plan, the next elections will be in spring 2006. Certainly Berlusconi...
A new year and a halfway house; just over two-and-a-half years have passed since Silvio Berlusconi became prime minister and if all goes according to plan, the next elections will be in spring 2006. Certainly Berlusconi...
Half of Rome's cars have been banned from circulating within the fascia verde, which roughly corresponds to the area inside the Grande Raccordo Anulare ring-road, from 15.00-19.00 on Wednesdays. Under new rules introduce...
Thurs 22 Jan marks the 60th anniversary of the Allied landings at Anzio, when troops arrived at the seaside town south of Rome with the aim of liberating the capital from the Germans. A fatal decision to delay the move n...
3-11 Feb 2004. Conducted by Vittorio Parisi, directed by Roberto De Simone, with Raffaello Converso, Vincenzo Pirrotta, Alessandro and Marco Caricchia, Paolo Romano.
Paolo Picozza. 4 Feb-31 March 2004. Broody, unusual landscapes of Rome in dark-tar shades. 10.00-13.00, 17.00-19.30. Mon morning and Sat afternoon closed.
Drippy, fast, sideways swipes, and black, broody horizons stret...
10-28 Feb 2004. The second Laboratorio di Progettazione (LAB_2), in which young artists and architects collaborate on a proposal that shows how architecture and contemporary art can intervene to help solve urban problems...
On Saturday 22 January the Italian towns of Anzio, Nettuno, Ardea, Cisterna di Latina, Latina and Pomezia will welcome representatives of nations that fought in world war two to remember the 61st anniversary of the allie...
29 Jan-26 Feb 2004. Despite recent, often purposely shocking experiments in British art, figurative picture-making is returning. There is a new naturalism, which is splashy and gawky but vivid. At Sala 1 four young resid...
3-22 Feb 2004. In Tangos, una leggenda, choreography by Miguel Angel Zotto. Seven couples and a group of musicians and singers are live on stage for Zottos most recent work, first performed in Buenos Aires in Sept 2003 t...